Skeptics are quick to point out that many of these examples may be either a) 'instinctive' fixed-action patterns shaped by natural selection or b) the result of classical or operant conditioning, rather than behavior that is mediated by 'cognitive' processes such as episodic memory, insight, or understanding.
Depression, anxiety, irritability, agitation, sleep disturbance, and cognitive impairments, including changes in attention, memory, insight, and judgment, are also common.
As for your emotions, memories, insights and invented characters, what makes you think anyone will care?
Retrieval mechanisms for autobiographical memories: Insights from the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia, Neuropsychologia, 44, 2386 2397].
"The purity and infallibility of smell memory — an insight central to Proust's literary conceit — doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny".
In contrast to these difficulties, memory, intelligence, insight, and personality tend to be preserved until late in the course of the disease.
That is until flickers of memory and insight threaten to reveal that the hosts were actually built by puppet-master scientists, a programmer explains, to "gratify the desires of the people who pay to visit your world".
F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography revealed reduced metabolic activity in the right lateral frontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, and bilateral temporal cortex in patients with delusions, overlapping with areas associated with loss of memory and insight [ 102].
They just focus and describe, evoking memories and insights.
Among those sharing memories and insights are Suzi Quatro, Jack White, Paul Morley and Pete Waterman (who owns, by his estimation, 45,000 singles).
This isn't a history but many histories, overlapping and often conflicting: a patchwork of imperfect memories, retrospective insights, time-burnished anecdotes and reheated grievances.
